Wednesday, March 22, 2006
poking fun
Maybe South Park is just a cartoon show like all the others about sweet silly kids running around and doing sweet silly things. In which case I was wrong to think that those adorable primary-colored cartoon kids were being used to make ironic and other kinds of fun of anything they could their stubby little arms around. Gee, it seemed like such fun, and really clever. I guess I could have been projecting all this time. How creative of me.
The broohaha began when Isaac Hayes, he of the astonishingly double-bass voice, objected to what he called South Park's disrespectfulness of religious beliefs. As one might say, no shit sherlock. Hayes has been Chef's voice for years and never objected to religious intolerance before now. And I'm confused about something else, too. If decency and religion concern him so much, how come he didn't mind intoning, in his #one 1999 hit, "suck on my chocolate, salty balls; put em in your mouth and suck em"? Huh, how come? Oh, but hold on! This shocked-and-stunned-ness arose just moments after an episode about scientology was scheduled to show in the U.S. Hey, do you think there might be a connection? Do you think there's an agenda? I mean, all this time it's apparently been okay enough when episodes made fun of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, etc. But now, as The London Times points out - and it's not known for its light-hearted or teasing approach to anything - scientology is about to get the SP whammy and it's just what they need, according to the Times, which adds that "a religion founded by a science-fiction writer in the 1950s which invites its followers to believe in an inter-galactic tyrant called Xenu and offers them the chance to control time itself by becoming 'Operating Thetans' deserves nothing less." What else can I say except to urge us all to watch the episode (10 pm est, tonight).
The broohaha began when Isaac Hayes, he of the astonishingly double-bass voice, objected to what he called South Park's disrespectfulness of religious beliefs. As one might say, no shit sherlock. Hayes has been Chef's voice for years and never objected to religious intolerance before now. And I'm confused about something else, too. If decency and religion concern him so much, how come he didn't mind intoning, in his #one 1999 hit, "suck on my chocolate, salty balls; put em in your mouth and suck em"? Huh, how come? Oh, but hold on! This shocked-and-stunned-ness arose just moments after an episode about scientology was scheduled to show in the U.S. Hey, do you think there might be a connection? Do you think there's an agenda? I mean, all this time it's apparently been okay enough when episodes made fun of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, etc. But now, as The London Times points out - and it's not known for its light-hearted or teasing approach to anything - scientology is about to get the SP whammy and it's just what they need, according to the Times, which adds that "a religion founded by a science-fiction writer in the 1950s which invites its followers to believe in an inter-galactic tyrant called Xenu and offers them the chance to control time itself by becoming 'Operating Thetans' deserves nothing less." What else can I say except to urge us all to watch the episode (10 pm est, tonight).
Labels: fun, modern culture, people
I once saw Ron Hubbard's yacht in Sausalito. He's doing quite well.
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